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...retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Burning & Burial | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmology | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...matter of pride to a member of the U. M. W. to see a man of that organization go out into the highways and byways of national politics and make a name for himself that is recognized throughout the country. (Pause.) But it is a matter of sorrow and regret to see a man betray the union of his youth-(pause)-for 30 lousy pieces of silver!'' Furious, Mr. Hurley rushed forward shouting objections. Neither turning head or shifting gaze, Mr. Lewis, with magnificent indifference, interjected: "Strike out '30 pieces of silver.' Let it stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Coal Demosthenes | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Last week when news of this incident reached Moscow no less a person than Josef Stalin himself sent a letter to Widow Weissel. He shared her sorrow: he knew that she had no money; he would be proud to adopt her son and rear him as his own. Widow Weissel politely declined. Said she of her son: ''I promised his father that I would always bring him up as a Socialist, never a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Stalin & Widow | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Death of Miss Chapin | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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